Friday, December 9, 2016

William Strang III

William Strang
The Prodigal Son
1882
etching
British Museum

William Strang
The Dissecting Room
1884
etching, engraving
British Museum

A brief chronological cross-section of the work of William Strang as print-maker. The span covered here is about thirty years, from the early 1880s to the eve of World War I.

William Strang
Parthenon Horse (Elgin Marbles)
1885
engraving
British Museum

William Strang
Charles Holroyd , no. 1
1887
etching, engraving
British Museum

William Strang
Dr. Joseph Joachim
1887
etching
British Museum

William Strang
Sale of prints at Sotheby's
1889
drypoint
British Museum

William Strang
Danse macabre
1891
etching
British Museum

William Strang
The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter
1894
etching, engraving
British Museum

William Strang
Peter Strang 
(artist's son, in chorister's robes)
1896-97
engraving, drypoint
British Museum

William Strang
The Woodcutter
1900
drypoint
British Museum

William Strang
The Fisherman
1908
drypoint
British Museum

William Strang
Nymph and Shepherds, no. 2
1910
drypoint
British Museum

William Strang
Duke of York's Monument, London
1912
drypoint
British Museum

William Strang
Alphonse Legros
1913
etching
British Museum

Alphonse Legros, the subject of the final etching, was Strang's favorite and most influential teacher at the Slade. They later moved in the same London art circles and remained good friends.